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    Endurance Exercise Intervention Is Beneficial to Kidney Function in a Rat Model of Isolated Abdominal Venous Congestion: a Pilot Study

    In this study, the effects of moderate intense endurance exercise on heart and kidney function and morphology were studied in a thoracic inferior vena cava constricted (IVCc) rat model of abdominal venous cong...

    Jirka Cops, Bart De Moor, Sibren Haesen in Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Re… (2020)

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    Exercise intervention in hospitalized heart failure patients, with emphasis on congestion-related complications: a review

    The importance of physical activity has become evident since a sedentary lifestyle drives cardiovascular disease progression and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The favorable effects of e...

    Jirka Cops, Sibren Haesen, Bart De Moor, Wilfried Mullens in Heart Failure Reviews (2020)

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    Modalities of Exercise Training in Cardiac Rehabilitation

    In order to be able to prescribe exercise in cardiac rehabilitation, a basic understanding of the training principles is mandatory. After discussing the general concepts of exercise prescription (FITT principl...

    Luc Vanhees, Dominique Hansen in Textbook of Sports and Exercise Cardiology (2020)

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    Current animal models for the study of congestion in heart failure: an overview

    Congestion (i.e., backward failure) is an important culprit mechanism driving disease progression in heart failure. Nevertheless, congestion remains often underappreciated and clinicians underestimate the impo...

    Jirka Cops, Sibren Haesen, Bart De Moor, Wilfried Mullens in Heart Failure Reviews (2019)

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    Telerehab III: a multi-center randomized, controlled trial investigating the long-term effectiveness of a comprehensive cardiac telerehabilitation program - Rationale and study design

    Telerehabilitation has been proposed as an adjunct/alternative to standard center-based cardiac rehabilitation. Two recent systematic reviews showed non-inferiority and/or superiority of this remote approach f...

    Ines Frederix, Dominique Hansen, Karin Coninx in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders (2015)